The Global Competency Certificate

The GCC is a complementary tool to traditional language courses. It is an innovative blended educational program, with engaging videos and opportunities for global peer interaction, before they arrive, while they are in Canada and after they go back home. It is a way to provide improved intercultural learning and cross-cultural adjustment training to increasingly diverse and internationally mobile students/participants. As such, it reduces stereotypes and prejudice and stimulates intercultural dialogue in Canada or any country in the world partnered with Sentio, much needed skills in today’s world.

GCC BENEFITS

• Learners connect to a global cohort of peers before, during and after their experience in a new cultural environment. • Those who support the learners in their overall experience develop a common language with learners around intercultural topics and navigating culture (e.g. are you going through a cultural surprise, irritation, or shock?), aiding any challenges a learner might go through. • The online environment provides continuity and support throughout the learning journey (before, during, and after an intercultural experience). • Learners can absorb content at their own pace and revisit previous content. • By addressing various learning styles, we meet learners where they are.

Learn more about the GCC through this video

Upon signing the licensing agreement with Sentio Global Network, Languages Canada members will receive:

"We sincerely believe this partnership will benefit all levels of second language education in the country. Students will benefit from training that will allow them to better understand and integrate themselves into their environment. Schools will receive additional training. And Languages Canada wins a partner. " -- Gonzalo Peralta, LC Executive Director

“All too often, second language education is limited to a conventional teaching experience in class. Language learning and development of global competence are two sides of the same coin. Thanks to this partnership, tens of thousands of students coming into Canada can better adapt to the new cultural environment in which they find themselves and thus perform better in class and overall in their experience abroad”. -- Bert Vercamer, General Manager of Sentio